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You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what [Donald Trump] does already. The mystery is how he's gotten as far as he's gotten.

Errol Morris

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
Actor
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Non-Fiction Writer
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New York
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.
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They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
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I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.
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The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
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